| Title | mLearning for Practice Phase 2: using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching in multidisplinary health professional education and practice |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2013 |
| Completion | 09/30/2016 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Title | mLearning for Practice Skills: Using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2013/2014 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Bernie Garrett |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 13,026 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Bernie Garrett, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 1: Summary | This project seeks funding for a mobile learning or mLearning (Crescente & Lee, 2011) project to develop and evaluate augmented reality resources to support student learning in clinical skills and lab based education. Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that turns mobile devices such as smartphones into visual augmentation devices to virtually display and superimpose digital content for the freely available “Layar” application, and use the Layar development tools to create and host the AR content. Hoppala Geo-Augmentation Web Services may also be used to add supplementary geo-location tagging data. AR resources will be created for two educational applications:
The initial target student groups for these activities will be undergraduate nursing students, but later inclusion of other health professional students is envisioned. |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2014/2015 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Bernie Garrett |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 30,760 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Bernie Garrett, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 2: Summary | This project seeks to build upon work developed using a previous 2013/14 nursing TLEF grant - "mLearning for Practice Skills; using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching." The earlier project (still in evaluation) successfully demonstrated benefits from using augmented reality (AR) to turn mobile devices such as smartphones into visual augmentation devices to virtually display and superimpose custom digital content in context with real-world objects in the lab. This new project will expand the use of AR to faculty and students from Genetic Counseling, Medicine (undergraduate program), Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech Sciences. We will create virtual point of interest (POI) tags and AR content for equipment and documents used in clinical training, and for orientation at clinical practice sites. AR content will be accessed using the freely available "Layar" AR application. We will develop and evaluate this AR content with input from students and educators. |
| Project Report | 14-002-Garrett-Final-WEB.pdf |
| Project Outcomes |